Mark Leonard of Reuters | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin's plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald's. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly undoing...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Nearly twenty-five years ago, Tim Berners-Lee outlined in a proposal the need for a 'world-wide web' and advocated the creation of a bill of rights to 'protect the neutral, open internet'. He did so out of the belief that there...
K. B. Ahmed | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Morality, justice and legality have been reinvented by Israel with the acquiescence of those who are powerful, supposedly advanced and claiming superior national identity. Border closing by both Israel and Egypt preventing the Gaza inhabitants from coming out may be...
Quamrul Islam Chowdhury | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The UN Open Working Group on Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (OWG SDGs) has finally picked up climate change as a stand-alone goal for the post-MDG (Millennium Development Goals) era. After long negotiations and heated debate, the OWG SDGs adopted this...
S Iftikhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
In the October 22, 1925 issue of his weekly publication, Young India, Mahatma Gandhi warned: "Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science without humanity, knowledge without character, business without ethics, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle" were the seven...
The European Union (EU), according to a report published in this paper Saturday last, has warned Bangladesh that it might impose a ban on vegetable and fruit imports from the country for non-compliance with the union's phytosanitary requirements. A high...
The 2014 Commonwealth Games has formally closed with a spectacular ceremony at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Deacon Blue and more than 2,000 performers brought the curtain down on what has been praised as the "best Games ever"....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Sugar is one of the very few essential commodities that have not been troubling their consumers for a reasonable period of time. Rather, unlike most other essentials, its price has gone down by more than 33 per cent over the...
Md. Mojammal Hoque | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been pressurising the country's commercial banks to open school banking accounts in an increasing number. Already the banks have set targets for such bank accounts. This will affect bank rating. For this reason bank employees...
Plants are a mind-blowing creation of the Almighty and valuable resource of the earth. It is an emergency need of all the creatures. We need to take oxygen and fresh air from tree and it takes the carbon dioxide away...
The ruling party is reluctant to sit for a dialogue with the BNP for a fresh new participatory election in the country. Upon her return from London where she attended the 'Girl Summit' and met British Prime Minister David Cameron,...
While bidding farewell to the Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, the permanent secretary for labour of Thailand Jeersak Sukhonthachart informed that the Labour Ministry of Thailand is ready to import Bangladeshi labourers to work in the fishing industry...
Brazil, the five times winner of the FIFA World Cup, has offered to train Bangladeshi football coaches in Brazil to help improve the standard of Bangladesh football, reports UNB. "We're very glad to offer training for your (BD) coaches in...
GLASGOW, Aug 3 (AFP): Although only racing in the programme-ending 4x100m relay, the larger-than-life presence of Usain Bolt dominated track and field at the Commonwealth Games, hit by the absence of several other big names. The Games had got off...
GLASGOW, Aug 3 (AFP): Singapore finished the Commonwealth Games with six table tennis golds out of a possible seven after Zhan Jian won the men's singles and Feng Tianwei secured her third gold of the Games with Yu Mengyu in...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Sunday announced a 20-member women's preliminary squad for the ensuing 17th Asian Games to be held in the South Korean city of Incheon and adjoining areas, reports UNB. The qualifying training camp of the preliminary team...
Authorities in India have evacuated 60,000 people in the northern state of Bihar amid fears of flash floods from Nepal, officials say. Water levels in the Kosi river, which begins in Nepal, have risen steeply. A landslide there Saturday killed...
GLASGOW, Aug 3 (AFP): The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow were hailed Sunday as a "stand-out" event by organisers who insisted the movement, comprising largely former British colonies, was well and truly alive. A combination of the high quality of sports...
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (AFP): Milos Raonic, coming off his first Grand Slam semi-final at Wimbledon, and double-duty winner Vasek Pospisil will meet Sunday in the ATP's first-ever all-Canadian final at the Washington Open. Seventh-ranked Raonic, seeking his sixth career title...
STANFORD, United States, Aug 3 (AFP): Serena Williams stormed into the final of the WTA hardcourt tournament at Stanford Saturday, winning the last eight games of a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Andrea Petkovic. The world number one and top seed,...
Indian officials reportedly arrested for assault NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Scottish police have arrested two Indian officials who were in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games for alleged assault, according to Indian media reports Sunday. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) secretary general...
The diarrhoea outbreak in Chuadanga has assumed alarming proportions over the past four days with more than 500 patients being admitted to the District Sadar Hospital till Monday afternoon. Residents of Masjidpara, Majherpara, Baganpara, Djintalapara and Islampara said they have...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The government has estimated a demand of 5.03 million tonnes of chemical fertiliser for cultivation purpose in the current fiscal year (2014-15) against the current reserve of 1.33 million tonnes, officials said. The current fiscal's reserve of urea is 0.897...
Walton, the country's leading electric, electronics, automobile and home appliance manufacturing and marketing company, has been awarded the 'Brand Excellence' award for gaining customers' confidence, reports UNB. World Brand Congress, who researched over worldwide brands, selected Walton for 23rd global...
BEIJING Aug 3 (Reuters) : Police in China have detained six executives of a meat supply company at the centre of the latest food safety scare to hit the country, state media reported on Sunday. Shanghai's chief of police and...
BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) : General Motors said on Sunday that it had asked its main Chinese supplier to find an alternative source of components after an explosion ripped through a factory a day earlier killing at least 69 people....
NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) : Early this year, a New York State Lottery winner in Brooklyn approached Morgan Stanley with a problem: he needed to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars before he collected his prize money. The man,...
Alleging that a deep-rooted conspiracy by influential quarters is still going on against Bangladesh, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said on Sunday she will work tirelessly for the country's people as she is not afraid of bullets, bombs and minus-two...
FE Report | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Stocks closed flat in the red Sunday amid choppy trading with turnover crossing Tk 4.0 billion-mark as investors re-balanced their portfolio, the first trading day after Eid vacation. The market started with a high volatility, but later the investors' took...
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